Scratch

This really can't happen for the reasons henley explained. Scratch is interactive and logic based, but movies are just pre-rendered sequences of frames. For that reason, the two formats are simply incompatible. The best you can do is record a video of your project  using a program such as Camstudio.

scimonster wrote:

What if it's a game?

Then you obviously wouldn’t want to make it into a video. 

efisher82 wrote:

henley wrote:

It’s harder than you’d think to “just convert it to a video”.

Scratch’s build is object oriented programming which just doesn’t work with movies. Movies use frames, and that kind of stuff, while Scratch uses blocks to make things move, say things, and switch costumes.

If you really want to do this, (on a Mac) you could open Quicktime, and make a screen recording of the project in fullscreen mode.

NO!!!!!
If you screen record your video at all in presentation mode, the black bars will be on all sides of the screen. They need to make presentation mode actually full screen.

There are some programs you can download that allow you to record certain parts of the screen.

If they did that, everything would be far too pixelated to understand. My mini laptop has a small screen, but by desktop computer’s screen is HUGE and there’s no guarantee that your monitor’s resolution will be multiples of 480 and 360.

Last edited by henley (2011-09-27 16:19:07)

Screen video capture? Most software for that is paid though 

Harakou wrote:

efisher82 wrote:

henley wrote:

It’s harder than you’d think to “just convert it to a video”.

Scratch’s build is object oriented programming which just doesn’t work with movies. Movies use frames, and that kind of stuff, while Scratch uses blocks to make things move, say things, and switch costumes.

If you really want to do this, (on a Mac) you could open Quicktime, and make a screen recording of the project in fullscreen mode.

NO!!!!!
If you screen record your video at all in presentation mode, the black bars will be on all sides of the screen. They need to make presentation mode actually full screen.

Just only record the part of the screen that the Scratch window takes up. Pretty much all recorders have that feature.

The problem with making it take up the entire screen, as henley said, is that few people have a screen that's the same aspect ratio as the Scratch stage, so everything would be stretched to fit, which would look awful. 

Yeah, I know how stretching looks bad. I mean maybe instead of bars on ALL SIDES, they could just be on two sides, so if you posted it on say, YouTube, it wouldn't look obnoxiously small. Because QuickTime, which has a built-in screen recorder, WILL NOT record part of the screen. Just for people like me that hate messing with downloading new programs.

Actually, we should probably just change the aspect of the stage. Let's go widescreen!

Last edited by efisher82 (2011-09-28 20:20:23)

Ze answer to your quevestion is....

Aww, I'm late on ze 'use a screen recorder' train...... D:

Sonickyle wrote:

Harakou wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Screen video capture? Most software for that is paid though 

Camstudio works really well and is totally open-source. (I.E. free) 

I Use Camstudio!
Even Though It's Free, You Don't Get Great Quality From Recordings, Even At 100% Quality.

It depends on the codec you use. If you use the included lossless codec, well, it's lossless, so the quality is excellent.